Medicine scheduler

Abstract

A support carries a pad of medicine schedules and a pad of medicine display cards. Each medicine schedule has a place for a medication sticker with a picture of the tablet or other medication involved, and space for instructions concerning that medication. Each display card carries multiple stickers of a single medication. An individual sticker can be lifted from the card and placed on the medicine schedule. A physician writes instructions concerning the medicine. The patient is provided with the medicine schedule and thus has a graphic indication of which medicine must be taken and the instructions concerning that medicine.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A medicine scheduler comprising, in combination: a plurality of medication display cards, each carrying a multiplicity of separate removable stickers, each sticker having an easily identifiable picture of a medication thereon;   at least one medicine schedule containing a plurality of sticker sites for receiving a separate sticker at each site, and a separate instruction space closely associated with each sticker site for receiving written instructions concerning taking of the medication pictured on a sticker at a respective sticker site; and   a support, said plurality of medicine display cards being movably mounted to the support, and a multiplicity of medicine schedules in a pad attached to the support.   
     
     
       2. A medicine scheduler according to claim 1, wherein the support includes a listing of all medication represented in medication display cards movably mounted to the support. 
     
     
       3. A medicine scheduler according to claim 2, wherein the support includes at least three panels connected by fold lines to each other, the pad of medicine schedules being attached to a first one of the panels, the plurality of medicine display cards being movably mounted to a second one of the panels and the list of medications being on a third one of the panels. 
     
     
       4. A medicine scheduler according to claim 3, wherein the first, second and third panels include a middle panel and opposite end panels connected to the middle panel, the support including a spacer panel connected between the middle panel and each of the end panels. 
     
     
       5. A medicine scheduler according to claim 4, wherein the medicine display cards are movably mounted to the middle panel, the pad of medicine schedules being attached one of the end panels. 
     
     
       6. A medicine scheduler according to claim 3, wherein each sticker includes a printed name of the medication pictured on the sticker, and dosage information concerning the medication. 
     
     
       7. A medicine scheduler according to claim 3, including a color code associated with groups of medications in the list, and a corresponding color code area on each of the medication display cards of a respective group. 
     
     
       8. A method of scheduling medication for a patient, comprising: providing a plurality of medication display cards, each carrying a multiplicity of separate removable stickers, each sticker having an easily identifiable picture of the medication thereon;   providing at least one medicine schedule containing a plurality of sticker sites for receiving a separate sticker at each site, and a separate instruction space closely associated with each sticker site for receiving written instructions concerning taking of the medication pictured on a sticker at a respective sticker site;   selecting a sticker corresponding to a medication to be taken by a patient, from one of the medication display cards, and placing it on one of the sticker sites;   writing instructions concerning the patient's taking of the medication in the instruction space adjacent the sticker site carrying the sticker; and   providing the plurality of medication display cards in a movable mount on a central panel of a multi-panel support, providing a multiplicity of medicine schedules in a pad on another one of the panels of the support, and including a list of all medication represented in the medication display cards, on another panel of the support.   
     
     
       9. A method according to claim 8, including selecting a plurality of stickers representing different medications, placing each of the stickers at separate sticker sites, and writing instructions in each respective instruction space concerning each respective medication represented at a respective sticker site. 
     
     
       10. A method according to claim 8, wherein the pad of medicine schedules is provided on a right-hand panel compared to a location of the display cards. 
     
     
       11. A method according to claim 8, wherein the pad of medicine schedules is provided on a left-hand panel compared to a location of the display cards. 
     
     
       12. A method according to claim 8, including providing a color code associated with each of a plurality of groups of medications listed on the medication list, and providing a corresponding color code area on each medication display card, corresponding to the color code in the list for the medication of that card. 
     
     
       13. A method according to claim 8, including providing the plurality of medication display cards and the at least one medicine schedule, to a physician free of charge, the physician performing the steps of selecting a sticker and writing the instructions.